{"id":3640,"date":"2020-11-02T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:06:39","slug":"busy-versus-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/2020\/11\/02\/busy-versus-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy versus Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I decided to stop saying that I\u2019m busy. It was my \u201cgo-to\u201d response most of the time when people would ask me how things are going. Busy seemed to sum it up pretty well. I came to the realization that busy didn\u2019t necessarily mean that I was getting things done. So often I felt that I was doing a lot but accomplishing very little.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I decided that I would change my language around how my life is going. Instead of saying I\u2019m busy, I say I\u2019m productive. I\u2019m not just saying it either, I feel more productive. I\u2019m no longer taking on tasks for the sake of doing them. If I\u2019m saying yes to something, it\u2019s because it\u2019s in alignment with the things I committed to doing this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

I no longer say yes because I\u2019m afraid of the consequences of saying no, whether that means disappointing someone or missing out on something that everyone else is doing. If I really want to make my goals a reality this year, then I have to remain focused. This doesn\u2019t mean having tunnel vision \u2013 I\u2019m open to the opportunities that exist or are coming to help me get where I want to be. What it does mean is that I\u2019m no longer getting distracted by shiny objects or discouraged by the disappointments.<\/span><\/p>\n

I used to use the claim that I was busy as a badge of honour. It was like I was telling anyone that was wondering that I am working on stuff. I feel like I started to use this phrase more when I quit my full-time job as a defense against those who doubted I could make it work. It was like I had to show them that I was busy with my business, not sitting at home catching up on talk shows or soap operas.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve found that focus has made the difference for me when it comes to being productive versus being busy. When I lack focus, I\u2019m busy looking for the answer to what I should be doing next. I\u2019m saying yes to things in the hopes that it will lead somewhere <\/i>when\u00a0I\u2019m not certain where it is that I\u2019m headed!<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, productive means having a list of 2 of 3 major goals that I want to accomplish each day and getting at least 2 of them accomplished. It means that I\u2019m checking in with myself on a daily basis and tracking my progress and reflecting on what\u2019s working, what isn\u2019t working, and why. It does take discipline to keep this going on a consistent basis, but I know that it\u2019s working for me, so I keep doing it \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to become more productive in the last 2 months of 2020, join me for my 4X System starting Monday, November 2, 2020<\/a>! It’s designed to take your productivity to the next level \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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This year I decided to stop saying that I\u2019m busy. It was my \u201cgo-to\u201d response most of the time when people would ask me how things are going. Busy seemed to sum it up pretty well. I came to the realization that busy didn\u2019t necessarily mean that I was getting things done. So often I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104,1389,703,502,609,704,1550,598,345,1577,1576,1578,1390,1512,537],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday","tag-accountability","tag-busy","tag-clarity","tag-embrace-your-destiny","tag-focus","tag-getting-things-done","tag-goal-accomplishment","tag-goal-planning","tag-goal-setting","tag-jump-start-your-year-workshop","tag-productive","tag-reflect","tag-reset","tag-review","tag-sandra-dawes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}